After months of feedback, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published its 10-year roadmap that illustrates “how healthcare facilities and patients should be able to share medical information” while protecting user privacy, Computerworld reports. “The roadmap includes a common clinical data set for every patient,” the report states. “In order for us to be able to understand the quality of care delivered for individuals and for populations, we need to have that data available," said National Health IT Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, who also spoke of the need for “federally recognized, national interoperability standards … that would include privacy and cybersecurity standards." The roadmap aims to clarify and “align federal and state privacy and security requirements that enable interoperability,” the report states.
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